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Mesopotamia
Sumerian Life
Empires
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Grab Bag
100
Mesopotamia, today, is part of this modern country.
What is Iraq?
100
Temple found in the center of Sumerian city-states.
What is a ziggurat?
100
King that conquered city-states and created first empire.
Who is Sargon I?
100
Wedge-shaped writing.
What is cuneiform?
100
Person skilled in writing.
What is a scribe?
200
Chief crop found in Mesopotamia.
What is barley?
200
This is who was allowed to go school.
What are the sons of the rich?
200
Hammurabi is best known for this.
What is his code of laws?
200
Sumerian invention that helped transportation.
What is the wheel?
200
Used to operate a Mesopotamian clock.
What is water?
300
This is what Mesopotamia translates to.
What is the "land between the rivers?"
300
The middle class is made up of these people.
What are artisans/shopkeepers?
300
Chief city of Hammurabi's empire.
What is Babylon?
300
Sumerian invention that made it possible for farmers to grow more food.
What is the plow?
300
Person who is skilled in a craft.
What is an artisan?
400
Nickname for Mesopotamia.
What is the "cradle of civilization?"
400
Raised soil that controlled the floods of the rivers.
What are levees?
400
Another term for improvement.
What is reform?
400
Sumerians created the earliest literature based on this legendary priest-king.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
Year Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia.
What is 3500 BC?
500
The 2 rivers that surround Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
500
The 2 rights of Sumerian women.
What is buy/sell property, own/sell slaves?
500
How Hammurabi changed religion.
What is from many gods to only one god?
500
Sumerian invention that replaced muscle power with wind power.
What is the sail boat?
500
Kingship was this because it was passed from parent to child.
What is hereditary?